Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
MATTHEW ARNOLDTime may restore us in his course Goethe’s sage mind and Byron’s force: But where will Europe’s latter hour Again find Wordsworth’s healing power?
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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Nature’s great law, and the law of all men’s minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.
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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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I knew the mass of men conceal’d Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal’d They would by other men be met With blank indifference.
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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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